Theoretical Physics Refresher Course conducted by Indian Science Academies

Introductory Probability Theory (Module 7)

Resource person: Govind S. Krishnaswami

Topics: Outcomes of an experiment, events, sample space, probabilities and combination of events, conditional probability and statistical independence, random variables: discrete and continuous, probability distributions, cumulative distribution, probability density, joint probability density, marginal distribution, statistical independence, expectation value, variance, moments, Bernoulli trials, Binomial distribution, Poisson distribution, Gaussian distribution, Brownian motion.

Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara, Kerala, June 15 - July 1, 2023

Some brief lecture notes on probability are here.

Some exercises on probability are here.